Baseball

Baseball is America’s pastime for the last one hundred years. Baseball has brought joy and happiness to many people’s lives throughout the years. Baseball is theater to many people. It shows the struggle between two different teams playing their hearts out to win a championship; just like two countries going to war. Baseball has many star players and many great players that people have grown up with and idolized. Children play games in the local park pretending that they are Mark McGuire or Barry Bonds, hitting the game winning home run in the ninth inning with two outs to win the World Series. In my essay, I will be describing the ritual that I gravitate to. I will convey the six elements of theater while describing the ritual that I gravitate to: baseball.
First, there are the baseball players. They are the actors in this particular genre of theater. They play nine different positions on the field on defense, while the opposing team only has one person on the field batti...